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Ramona Fradon, 1926-2024Undated Comics Journal file photo. Ramona Fradon, whose career of more than 75 years led the way for female artists in the comic book...
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“And The Bad Ones Will Be Forgotten, And The Good Ones Will Be Remembered”: A Conversation with Harry NordlingerNordlinger at home. Photo by Nora Wolinsky. INTRODUCTION As I write this introduction, Harry Nordlinger ’s Shadows Over Springfield...
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Xmas in February – This Week’s LinksThe last links round-up of the month, as a This Week’s Links will sadly not fall upon the leaping 29th of February until 2036, at which point...
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The War on Gaza – 2.23.24This is the fifth installment of Joe Sacco’s column, “The War on Gaza.” The post The War on Gaza – 2.23.24 appeared first on The Comics...
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Alfredo Castelli, 1947-2024Alfredo Castelli at the Cartoon Club festival in Rimini, July 2017. Photo © Cartoon Club, used with permission. Alfredo Castelli, a larger...
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The Aesthetics of Brutes“So, Fabrice, have you finished?” This opening dialogue in Fabrice Neaud’s new comic, Le Dernier Sergent 1: Les Guerres immobiles , is...
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Tex: Captain JackWhenever I talk about Enrique Breccia, which is quite a lot, I often hear the retort that he’s not quite as good as his father, Alberto Breccia....
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Portrait of a BodyWhat is written on the body? Perhaps that question is the wrong one. Portrait of a Body , the new memoir from Julie Delporte, is certainly a...
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Art, Politics and Punk: An Interview with Elizabeth Fiend, aka Luna TicksINTRODUCTION In a scene reminiscent of a London ravaged during the worst of the Blitz, a young punk named Vera boldly rides her...
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Valentine’s Day Is Over – This Week’s LinksMy broadband is holding on for dear life at the moment, so I’ll dive straight into this week’s links, below, lest prolonged extemporising causes...
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Who Built the Mouse in the House the Mouse Built?Steamboat Willie (1928) There has been much schadenfreude surrounding the entrance of Mickey Mouse, at least in the 1928 guise...
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Arrivals and Departures – February 2024And we’re back! If you recall last month’s column , I started assessing all the books I brought home from the Short Run Comix & Arts Festival in...
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JuliettePerhaps the cleverest trick Juliette pulls off is its simple title, printed large on the cover of the book above an alternate title, "The Ghosts...
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The War on Gaza – 2.13.24This is the fourth installment of Joe Sacco’s column, “The War on Gaza.” The post The War on Gaza – 2.13.24 appeared first on The...
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HypericumNo two consecutive Manuele Fior books have looked much alike until now, although they have always felt like the same mind at work: thinking about...
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“I Will Always Choose Reality”: Dave McKean, RetrospectiveAll images in this interview are presented as in Thalamus: The Art of Dave McKean (Dark Horse, 2023); this is regardless of the original...
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Friday Night’s A Great Night (For Football) – This Week’s LinksHeading into another Super Bowl weekend, with various heaps of snack food to hand, and betting slips clenched between my fingers like terrible,...
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John G. Miller, 1954-2024Photo by Rob Miller. The following obituary for the Scottish cartoonist John G. Miller, who died this past January, aged 69, was...
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Hexagon Bridge #1-5A word, then, for the pamphlet comic book. Oh , you groan, that old thing. Didn’t we dump that by the wayside? Well, we did, sort of. They...
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Natsume Sōseki and Manga“Natsume Sōseki to manga” From Shimizu Isao, Manga ga kataru Meiji ( The Meiji Period as Told by Manga , Kōdansha Gakujutsu Bunko, 2005), pp....
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Welcome HomeWhen longtime socialist writer and activist Lois Weiner recommended me Welcome Home by sisters Clarrie & Blanche Pope (both wrote while Clarrie...
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The War on Gaza – 2.6.24This is the third installment of Joe Sacco’s column, “The War on Gaza.” The post The War on Gaza – 2.6.24 appeared first on The Comics...
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Dwellings #1-3Despite having honed an aesthetic that relies heavily on cute, streamlined cartoon characters–the kind you used to find on Saturday morning...
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“Girls Like Us”: Karina Shor & Natalie Norris in Conversation about the Perils and Triumphs of Making Graphic Memoirs About TraumaClick any image to enlarge. Natalie Norris is a cartoonist, teacher and comics librarian. She has taught and lectured about depicting...
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The February Hush – This Week’s LinksAnother Hourly Comics Day fades into memory, like tears in rain, as an opportunity to peek into the illustrated private lives of...
